Hi,
I have a Lenovo 430-16i HBA Card.
At the moment it can only do Sata / HDD no NVMe.
Seems with the original Broadcom 9400 Firmware you can enable NVMe?
Is there a guide for under Windows or Mac ( Mac preferred )
I think you would have to look at the ‘storcli’ command or software for that Broadcom series. I don’t know if there are Mac versions of their software
That’s what StorCLI shows via EFI Shell. Heartbeat LED of the Lenovo 430-16i is blinking green.
The vendor who has sold me the card says he can’t really help from remote ( not really happy about that )
He basically says if the LED is blinking green the Controller should be there.
I already tested the card in all three PCI E Slots I have in my Supermicro X10DRU-i+ Board.
I checked BIOS Option many many times … still I can‘t get it to work.
Quiet Boot in BIOS is disabled.
CSM is disabled.
Above 4G Decoding is disabled.
The Riser Cards I have changed from Legacy to EFI.
Boot I have changed from Dual to UEFI.
Latest BIOS is installed on the Motherboard.
I don’t even see the Card as an Entry in the BIOS.
so in Summary it seems it doesn’t get recognized and neither does it work yet.
A 9300-16i HBA card works without problems. But it draws too much power and gets to warm and than start to show I/O Errors. Hence why I bought the Lenovo card.
I have a MacBook M4 Pro and a Mac Mini M4 machine.
Via one of my brothers I would have access to a Windows machine.
Anyone has an idea?
So we tried it in brothers Win11 Machine with a MSI x570 Gaming Plus motherboard.
Heartbeat LED is blinking constantly green.
EFi Shell Shows Number of Controllers 0
CSM activated and disabled we tried = 0
Secure Boot disabled
Windows Device Manager doesn’t show any unrecognized devices.
We also plugged the card into an other PCI Express Slot ( where typically the Graphics card is installed )
Result Number of Controllers in EFI Shell = 0
No device for it in Windows Device Managee
Any idea?
The only one I have left is try in an other windows machine if it’s the same HBA card defect?
